Labour Adds 10% To NHS Deficits

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From today, NHS organisations are to be charged ten per cent interest on money they borrow when they run up deficits. The NHS Bank, run...

‘Big Four’ supermarkets pay back £1.7bn in Covid funds

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SUPERMARKET giants Tesco and Morrisons have claimed almost £1bn worth of emergency finances between them – finances that were made available for shops that...
PADDY HILL (second from left) and the Birmingham Six (centre) on the day of their release, March 14, 1991 outside the  Old Bailey, with Labour MP CHRIS MULLIN (centre)

Paddy Hill condemned British & Irish governments!

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ONE of the Birmingham Six, wrongly convicted of the Birmingham pub bombings in 1975, branded the British legal system as unable ‘to spell the...

Cladding Lobby

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TENANTS came from all over the country to lobby Parliament yesterday demanding that the tower blocks they live in are immediately stripped of flammable...
Defiant picket line at West London Mail Centre in Paddington last Thursday morning

Royal Mail Centres Out 3.00 Am Today

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Postal workers at Mail Centres across the UK are taking 24-hour strike action from 3am this morning in the second week of rolling...

Two-day nationwide lecturers pay strike

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A TWO day nationwide strike of lecturers at every university in the country has been called in an escalating row over pay, the University...

British Gas Staff Reject Boss’s Obscene Rise

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THE Unite and GMB trade unions have called on Ford to come clean over the future of its UK operations. They are warning that its...

A&E Visits Halved By Virus Outbreak

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A&E VISITS in England have halved since the coronavirus outbreak started, dropping to their lowest level since records began. Before the pandemic, more than 2.1m...
Greek youth marching in Athens against the privatisation of education

Greek Students March Against Privatisation

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TENS of thousands of students have been participating in a series of rallies and demonstrations all last week throughout Greece, protesting against the right-wing...

DVLA staff four-day strike begins today – Another Covid-19 outbreak feared!

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STAFF at the DVLA office in Swansea begin their four-day strike today after fears of a fresh Covid-19 outbreak as more than 2,000 people...

NHS staff ‘exhausted & on the brink!’ – BMA

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A YEAR of unparalleled pressure has left staff exhausted and on the brink, a just-released BMA survey shows. Thousands of doctors have revealed the impact...
At Friday night’s demonstration outside Downing Street were KIARA, MARY, SISSY, and Adelaide and Linguere MENDY, all nieces of Mary Mendy and cousins to her daughter Khadija who are both missing following the blaze at Grenfell Tower

‘REQUISITION EMPTY FLATS’ – to house Grenfell Tower survivors

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SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell yesterday slammed the May government’s ‘catastrophic failure’ after the fatal Grenfell Tower fire. Both he and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn demanded...

Coventry Council sacks hundreds!

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THE UNITE union has described the decision of Coventry council to press ahead and fire and rehire its entire refuse collection workforce as totally...

‘We need a general strike!’ – strong call from picketing nurses

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THE TORY government issued a calculated insult to thousands of striking nurses yesterday as the Royal College of Nursing held national strike action for...
Junior doctors demonstrate in the lead-up to their second strike. Their fourth strike takes place this week – they will not accept imposition

Legal challenge to Tory contract imposition

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THE BMA has launched a judicial review, challenging the lawfulness of the Tories’ decision to impose a new contract on the junior doctors. Junior doctors...
AYSAR SHAMALLAKH (left) launching his hunger strike at 6.00pm on Tuesday 2nd May in Parliament Square under the statue of Nelson Mandela in solidarity with 1,600 Palestinian prisoners of Israel

Palestine solidarity hunger strike

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A BRITISH national of Palestinian origin, Aysar Shamallakh, who is an active and co-founder member of the ‘17 April Group’, has started an awareness...

Russia poised to recognise Donbass republics! 5 Ukrainian officers killed trying to cross into...

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THE RUSSIAN Security Council discussed yesterday recognising Donetsk and Lugansk in the Donbass region of Ukraine as independent states. Russian President Vladimir Putin said: ‘I...
The front of last September’s 10,000-strong march from Southall to Ealing to defend the NHS and demanding that Ealing Hospital be kept open

BOYCOTT COMMISSIONING! – BMA GPs hit out at Coalition

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A SURVEY of GPs has shown that over half support the BMA organising a boycott of commissioning, with a sizeable minority supporting strike action...

‘The Tories crashed the economy while working people are taking the hit’ – TUC

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TRADE union leaders on Thursday gave their response to Chancellor Hunt’s austerity war on workers in his Autumn Statement. TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:  ‘The...
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday morning are determined to be reinstated on their original terms and conditions

Young Socialists march in Birmingham

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MORE THAN 100 youth won enthusiastic support from shoppers as they marched with the Young Socialists through Birmingham city centre on Saturday afternoon, as...

G4S driven out of immigration!

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PRIVATE firm G4S has been forced out of the immigration sector it was announced yesterday after the scandal at detention centre Brook House in...

Corbyn Attacks ‘No Deal’ Brexit At Tuc Conference!

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn made a ‘project fear’ speech at the TUC in Brighton yesterday, in which he described a No-Deal Brexit as a...
Young Socialists marchers welcomed at Sheffield GMB offices with a great fish and chips dinner

Sheffield hails March for Jobs

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The YS March for Jobs and Free State Education marched for 17 miles from Sheffield to Chesterfield yesterday. It is marching on to Mansfield and...

No ceasefire talks until Israel ends ‘hunger war’ says Hamas

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HAMAS will not engage in new ceasefire talks with Israel, as long as the regime continues its ‘hunger war’ against Palestinians in Gaza. Basem Naim, Hamas political...

BLAIR’S POLICE STATE POWERS – come in on Sunday January 1

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‘These powers constitute a serious erosion of civil liberties in this country. They will change the relationship between the police and the individual fundamentally,’...

‘Don’t cut Universal Credit!’ – Unite appeals to Chancellor Sunak

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MORE than half the country wants chancellor Rishi Sunak to continue permanently with the £20-a-week uplift in Universal Credit (UC) due to end in...

CAPITALISM IS SICK – admits Mandelson

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NEW Business Secretary Peter Mandelson admitted yesterday that he had checked in with his old boss Tony Blair before he agreed to take up...
Ambulance and patient transfer crews lobby South London Healthcare NHS Trust Board yesterday morning

Gmb Fights Privatisation

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Yesterday morning over 100 ambulance crew turned out to lobby the board of the South London Healthcare NHS Trust to warn them to stop...

100 killed in Donetsk! – after Kiev forces attack on airport

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OVER 100 have been killed, including 50 members of local self-defence forces and just over the same number of civilians, in clashes with pro-Kiev...
The United Families and Friends Campaign marching to Downing Street last October to protest over deaths in police and prison custody, including Adam Rickwood and Gareth Myatt

YOUNGEST CHILD DEATH IN CUSTODY – end imprisonment of children urges report

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AN end to the imprisonment of under-16 year olds ‘in all but the most exceptional circumstances’ was demanded yesterday, in an official report on...
A section of the mass picket outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday

Occupy Chase Farm To Stop It Closing

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Patients, staff and Enfield and district residents yesterday welcomed the mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital by the North East London Council of...

JLR to shut for 9 days!

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JAGUAR Land Rover is to shut its Halewood plant in Merseyside for nine days, in the latest development in the sharpening car manufacture crisis. Jaguar...

Israel moves to annexe the occupied West Bank

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THE Israeli parliament approved in a narrow vote on Wednesday a bill that would extend Israeli domestic law to the occupied West Bank. The move...

MPs CALL TO REJECT ID CARDS BILL

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MPs yesterday raised questions about the ID card Bill which was introduced in the House of Commons by Home Secretary Charles Clarke. Clarke said he...

Second referendum on the table! says shadow Brexit secretary Starmer

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SIR Keir Starmer, Labour’s shadow Brexit secretary was asked by Andrew Marr on his show yesterday morning: ‘700,000 people marching in London yesterday. If...
The NUT picket line at Ellis Guilford school in Nottingham yesterday – teachers are opposed to a 5-term year

Notts NUT strike action

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Nottingham teachers held a second successful one-day strike yesterday against the City Council’s plan to impose a five-term year. Speaking ahead of yesterday’s strike, John...

Ireland – ‘no desire’ to delay Brexit

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IRELAND’S deputy prime minister, Simon Coveney has said his country has ‘no desire’ to delay the UK’s Brexit talks. While Ireland was not looking for...
The Popular Assembly in session on Sunday night in the Vouli (parliament) square in Athens

Greece: Call For A ‘Political General Strike’

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An enormous rally of youth and workers with their families at the Vouli (Greek parliament) square in Athens on Sunday demanded for the fifth...

‘We are starting fightback against pay-pension cuts!’

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OVER 300 University and College Union (UCU) striking lecturers and student supporters rallied and marched to the Royal Exchange Building in the City of...
The lobby calling to scrap Clause 118/9 of the Care Bill which will allow health secretary Hunt to close any hospital he chooses

Stop Hunt Closing Hospitals!

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OVER 150 people lobbied the Houses of Parliament yesterday in an angry demonstration against clause 119, which if passed gives Tory Health Secretary Hunt...
Palestine Ambassador to the UK MANUAEL HASSASSIAN was the first speaker. He condemned the outrages that Israel is committing in Palestine

‘Bring Down The Tories!’

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OVER 200 workers and youth marched to the 44th News Line anniversary rally yesterday afternoon with flags flying and slogans calling for the Tory-led...

John Breen 1938-2010

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We are very sad to announce the sudden death of John Breen on Monday 15 February. He was a lifelong member of what became, SOGAT,...
Demonstrators condemn Israel outside the Houses of Parliament on Friday evening

HAMAS IS READY TO FREE SOLDIER – but Israel baulks at prisoner release

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ISRAEL blitzed Gaza from the air Sunday early morning, setting the interior ministry ablaze and killing a Palestinian fighter in the latest offensive aimed...

Resident Doctors staging a full walkout from 7am today

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RESIDENT doctors across England are staging a full walkout from 7am today until 6.59am tomorrow. The British Medical Association says years of pay erosion and...